The OPA set wages and controlled inflation to help manage the wartime economy.
There were several reasons why Lincoln feared about his reelection in 1864. Firstly no Presidents since Andrew Jackson before him had won the election for the second term in office. Secondly Lincoln knew that his embracing of emancipation did not go down well with the voters of the North. These were the reasons for his fears.
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Prairie schooner, 19th-century covered wagon popularly used by emigrants traveling to the American West. In particular, it was the vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail. The name prairie schooner was derived from the wagon’s white canvas cover, or bonnet, which gave it the appearance, from a distance, of the sailing ship known as a schooner.
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Westward expansion lead to the Missouri compromise because as people were traveling and settling in the west the problem at the core was slavery. Slave states didn’t want free slave states to have more power and more territory with no slaves and free slave states also didn’t want more slave states due to a power balance. With Missouri becoming apart of the United States it would unbalance free and slave states so due to the expansion Missouri was admitted to the United States as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free slave state.
westward expansion also lead to the compromise of 1850 over slavery in states. With America gaining new territories there had to be laws put into place to keep the states from going into war with one another. The law made California a free state but Utah and New Mexico would be allowed to choose slavery or no slavery.
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Because they were beside the ocean
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